A Happy Little Writer

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

He only interacts with an alien species that consist of what for the human eye looks like rocks that sing likes whales, that should be quite the first impression.

He commits cannibalism daily.

He hasn't interact with humans in at least (at least) like nine years, that has to make him very bad at interacting with people, and he was already kinda bad at it to start with (if you weren't one of his students of course).

He pass most of his time with kids, meaning that he should sound kinda childish from time to time without even meaning it.

He best friend is Rocky, who I love, but I sure is also weird by eridians parameters.

Like I just saying that awkward interactions, specially first meetings, should be also started by Grace who hasn't had to interact with humans in a while.

P.S: Simon can be weird too, of course, but for what I understand he grew up in a cult with people, weird people, but people in the end of the day. Grace had been living with eridians, and even when he is still painfully human, he had to be a little out of tone with how human interactions go.

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Look at me.

Look me directly in the eyes while I say this.

You can just make things.

You can simply create something and put it into the world.

That's allowed.

People have been doing it for centuries.

They sell blank VHS tapes. They sell blank DVDs. Blank CDs. You can buy flash drives by the bucketful if you really want to. If you create a movie, an album, a game, a documentary, or a four-hour video essay about the mating habits of fictional space goblins, you are entirely permitted to put that thing on physical media and sell it.

That is not piracy.

Piracy is taking something that belongs to someone else and reproducing or distributing it without permission.

If I buy a DVD of a movie, I own that copy of the movie. I do not own the movie itself. I didn't acquire the rights to duplicate it, press a thousand copies, and start selling them out of my garage like I've become the regional distributor for Warner Bros.

The copyright, distribution rights, and intellectual property still belong to whoever created it or whoever legally acquired those rights.

If I start burning copies of Iron Lung and selling them myself without Markiplier's permission, that's piracy.

If Markiplier, who made and owns the rights to Iron Lung, burns copies and sells them himself, that's just distribution.

He's the rights holder.

He's distributing his own work.

If you made it, if it came from your own mind, your own work, your own time, your own resources, then congratulations. You own the thing. You don't need a corporation to bless it with legitimacy.

The corporation is not what makes it real.

The fact that it exists is what makes it real.

I think we've accidentally spent so many years living inside a world dominated by mass-produced media that some people have developed the strange assumption that all media emerges from a factory somewhere. As if films naturally occur in shrink-wrapped plastic cases and descend from the heavens aboard a pallet truck.

But independent artists have been burning discs, dubbing tapes, printing books, pressing records, and mailing things directly to people for longer than many of us have been alive.

That's not a bootleg.

That's just a product.

It's not "bootleg."

It's just... leg.

The normal kind.

Simon not always being the angry one!! I feel like some fan content tends to infantilize Grace as just some innocent soft boy who would never hurt a fly while also stereotyping Simon as angry and grumpy and threatening 24/7? Which is kinda odd to me. Grace canonically lost his shit so hard he called one of his colleagues a “staggering waste of carbon” and got kicked out of academia. He starts breaking shit when things go wrong (him throwing the trash can(?) when he finds that astrophage are water based and punching the screen during the taumoeba leak). When Grace realizes he’s going to be forced on the mission he shoves a chair and climbs the walls and runs for his life and still keeps fighting even when pinned. If during their first encounter Simon attacks and threatens Grace because he’s (understandably) scared and confused and out of it let Grace fight a bit dirty!! Just for a little bit!! He’ll feel bad about it later but for now he doesnt know who this guy is or what he can do and he’s SCARED. FOR HIS LIFE. (Also admittedly inspired by this post) 

Simon helping Grace get ideas for his experiments and theories. We can reasonably assume that Grace is more well versed in science and academics than Simon is, but Simon still shows a great deal of intelligence and resourcefulness throughout Iron Lung; mapping out the caves on his own, opening the crawlspace with the first aid scissors, using his harness to keep the life vest attached to the black box. Grace is incredibly smart and scientific minded, yes, but throughout phm we still see him needing help from others who can think in more out of the box ways than him. Like when Carl suggests to just “put the box in another box.” It’s such a seemingly simple and not at all complicated solution, so much so that it doesn’t even come to Grace’s mind at first. But it's undeniably genius! And then later when Rocky suggests that they just sit in Adrian’s orbit in order to stay in the Petrova line, something Grace didn’t think of. I feel like simon could fulfill a similar role! Let them all do group science projects together.

More Rocky!! Ok this is probably the most self indulgent one. I know it’s kinda silly to ask for more of a character in content about a ship that doesnt (necessarily) involve said character. But like. This is my post so idc. After the events of Iron Lung Simon has radiation poisoning times like a bazillion (in addition to Every Other Disease). Rocky’s crew died from radiation and Rocky probably spent those entire 40 years alone thinking he was useless for not being able to fix it. And now Simon is going through something that not only Rocky can’t fix, but that grace is probably going to have a hard time fixing (if at all) as well! I feel like there’s angst potential there. That’s gotta suck ass. Also Rocky plays such an important role in Grace’s development and the narrative itself that I feel like he should play an important role here too?

We should be teaching people harm reduction not that self harm means you're broken. I'm sorry if anyone has ever made you feel that way. If self harm makes you feel better, even for a moment, why shouldn't you be allowed to do that? people do shit that harms their body all the fucking time but this one thing is off limits?

I'm edging around the topic because it's almost certainly ban worthy but like, if it helps fucking do it, id much rather you use a "less than ideal" grounding technique (which im already rolling my eyes just typing that) than have no way to help yourself.

Like Simon is immediately on defense, but that gets Grace up in tears so quickly and now Simon is panicking because this guy he just met is now sobbing from all his threatening and ohgodhe'ssuchabadperson